Half of the funding is planned to help increase police presence downtown, a direct response to what the mayor and others call "aggressive panhandling."

The set of houses in the Educators' Village fall under affordable housing guidelines, meaning the area's median income limits who can buy them.

The money comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Most will go toward housing efforts

Despite Indiana's opioid crisis and reported need for such programs, many of the USDA's plans won't come to the state in the near future, in part because of a technicality about how Indiana manages homes owned by the USDA.